Hôtel de Ville de Paris

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The Paris City Hall Hôtel de Ville (fr. Hôtel de Ville) since 1357 housed the Paris municipal authorities. Hôtel de Ville with a facade length of 110 m is located in a former medieval Place de Greve (place de Grève), now the area Hôtel de Ville in the IV arrondissement on the right bank Seny.Grevskaya square in front of the town hall was used as a place of execution. Public executions took place in the area for more than five centuries, from 1310 to 1830. There have been established fixed gallows and pillory (commoners hanged aristocrats cut head, robbers on the wheel, heretics and witches were burned Executions always attracted a large number of onlookers -. In those days it was a popular entertainment in total Grève were subtly deprived of life scores. thousands chelovek.Zdanie city government started its history in the XII century. in 1141 French merchants on the banks of the Seine was created port Greve ( "Sandy port") with the same name space.